THIS is what we need from facsimile editions. Very exciting! Plus if you notice, they applied the four color printing method, not the gaudy solid color fill of typical reprints. The colorists of long ago meant for there to be saturation of colors and gradients into the paper.
Yes, that was one of the attractions, that they decided go for that printing approach instead of gaudy current reprinting approach (I just put it down to that they want the material to be for use well into the future online and on TV or other formats as well as in omnis and also to match the current issues). Hopefully this is a good sign for some more to come out in the same style, I will be picking them up if they do. Apparently Flash comics 1 is out in December, will be checking that out also
I like the larger size and the tinted paper, has that vintage look to it. Had no idea it was different to the last facsimile, I like it. I have quite a few facsimilies from DC, PS Artbooks, and Marvel. Looking forward to reading the golden age Flash Comics 1 coming out soon, interested to see what other strips are in it too.
I will keep an eye out for the Flash one, be great if they do it in the same style, would love to see them repeating this approach. I really like they have gone for the original size (I assume it is). I like the unusual supporting strips, sometimes more interesting than the main one, I suppose because I haven't read them so often
In Flash Comics #1, the Cliff Cornwall strip is drawn by Moldoff; he would soon take over Hawkman. Other strips are Johnny Thunder (and his Thunderbolt, origin) and The Whip by George Storm (who later did DC's Buzzy series).
Certainly does. I have high hopes for the DC finest run as well, hopefully they will cover all kinds of things and I would love to see things like the Whip etc, collections of the minor characters that could have been contenders. Also a Flash / Hawkman etc set would be great as well.
Scribbly would be an awesome collection. The character actually began in Dell's Popular Comics circa 1936 before moving over to All-American in 1939. One of the few comics of that vintage I have that my dad originally owned is Popular #9. (He filled in a coupon with his name & address in pencil, proof that he did read it! So glad he didn't clip it!) At this point, the "Smithsonian Book of Comic Book Comics" and "The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told" are the best sources of Scribbly story reprints. The former includes the Red Tornado; the latter's pages were actually redrawn by Sheldon Mayer for the reprinting...! Mayer did the Scribbly strips in a style emulating the Sunday newspaper strip reprints found in those comic books, with a logo on each page. Very fun and interesting. All-American early on had lots of newspaper strip reprints, including Bobby Thatcher which you mentioned. (Hyperion did a Bobby T. collection in the 1970s.) Mutt & Jeff continued in All-Am to the very end, of course also having their own DC series (with new covers by Mayer!). You are right about the larger size of those vintage comic books; for example, I keep my Popular issue in a magazine size bag, rather than trying to stuff it into a Golden sleeve..,! A couple of random notes related to the 'Tec reprint: Action Comics was on issue #12 at the time 'Tec #27 came out. Slam Bradley began in 'Tec #1. Two other complete 'Tec #27 reprints as you know are the Famous First Edition (ca. 1974) and the Millennium Edition (ca. 2000). 'Tec #1 was also an interesting Millennium Edition. At one time it was rumored DC would reprint all of the earliest 'Tec issues in book form, but it never happened. Thanks for another great video. Your long-winded friend in Indiana -- Jim
I have the two books you mentioned but it would be great if a Scribbly DC finest appeared, hopefully it will happen. I also have a single All-American, certain that has Scribbly in it as well. I have a few early (1930s) comics and yes, the size is slightly different and not a great idea to stuff them into an incorrectly sized sleeve, though I have done that to my regret over the years. I did have the Millennium issue, way back, sadly I got rid of all but one of them. If they re-release any of the others from that series, will definitely pick them up again. I did buy their recently released DC New Fun comics 1 book which was amazing. I never had any copies of the Famous Firsts, they came out at the time of the Marvel Treasury editions and I bought them, really couldn't afford both at the time. They turn up a lot at comic marts. I had pre-ordered the two Detective omnis and I think their listings are still on Amazon, Detective Comics Before Batman Slipcase Set .. 26 issues, that would have been something. Hopefully that will also end up as a DC finest, be happy to see that. Only 1500 pages ... so probably three volumes (probably will have a long wait)
@@AndrewBuckleBookReviews When I was about 10 years old, the Lyle Stuart hardcover editions of 2 of the Famous First Editions turned up at a bookstore in my city: Wonder Woman #1 and Sensation #1. Really nice, with dustjackets, at about $3 each on clearance. I really regret not getting those, but I was not a WW fan per se, and standard comics were still 25 cents or so. Absolutely love the New Fun #1 HC book, I've been recommending it to DC fans. A bang-up job of reprinting; the only extremely minor quibble is a couple of the cover colors are a little off on the Jack Woods strip, but otherwise perfect. Beautiful hardboards of the covers, and nice glossy interior cover repros as well, great book. When DC did their Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman hardcover (2019), they replaced the planned reprinting of the first Slam Bradley story from 'Tec #1 with the one from #27 because of stereotypes of the Chinese in the 1st one. I can't say with anything other than speculation, but such concerns may have scuttled the Before Batman books you've pointed out. It was reportedly what stopped DC's announced Shazam - Monster Society of Evil collection, with the black character Steamboat. So unfortunately, earliest 'Tec may not see print -- I personally think a disclaimer is all that's needed. For example ,in recent years Fantagraphics reprinted the Mickey Mouse strips with African stereotypes, likewise IDW reprinted Tim Tyler's Luck with somewhat comparable offensive imagery -- they printed disclaimers, explaining the historical context. I think DC has made a mistake by not going a comparable route.
I agree, it is sad many of these old books are not reprinted because of various stereotypes, a disclaimer can always be added. If Fantagraphics could print them, not sure why DC couldn't add some historical context etc. Much the same with material on the BBC TV that never now gets shown, I really don't like the censoring of the past. I have seen many famous editions, perhaps will pick one up at some point but they are often fairly expensive so I really hope we do get a run of new ones on proper paper / printing such as the issue 27. Don't think I have ever seen a hardcover copy of any of the famous first editions.
I have a question: Are the Loot Crate/Facsimile reprints of Detective Comics #27 the censored versions? On page 2, where it shows Lambert dead and his son discovering his body, some reprints show these panels censored by removing the knife from Lambert's back and from his son's hand. Are the Loot Crate/Facsimile reprints censored or uncensored? Thanks.
Would buy many more of them. I haven't bought many of their facsimiles as they are not really that facsimile - cleaned up yes but not the same or even similar.
Nice, but I wish DC would not ruin the whole effect by slapping that new price on the cover. I'm reasonably sure that most people with a working brain will know that they're going to pay more than 10 cents for the facsimile edition. And the whole "yeah, but people will try to sell it as an original" response is just plain silly.
I agree but I guess they have to put it on with the correct price for legal reasons. No one will be fooled at the current time that the comic is anything other than a facsimile but give it 100 years of aging along with the originals, who knows.
I have a copy of the new facsimilie. I love it, is it perfect? For the price you pay YES it is!! (I am curious to know what the og paper would have looked like on its release.) DC Facsimilies are knocking it out of the park. The Marvel ones are fabulous as well, I do hope the barcodes and, ghastly 😅, modern logos will be banished from their covers as we go on, not a deal breaker, but a much cooler experience to see the books without those imo. I would love to have a run of BATMAN in this format, not just key issues... From the start onwards. I thought the Betlejuice cover for the Variant cover of HOM was fun super fun as well. 🎃 Look forward to hearing your thoughts on that Godzilla volume. What a great time to be a comic book fan!! Thanks for the show.
Yes, as soon as I saw it I picked it up, great to see. I would imagine it was close enough but so hard to say without a time machine. I have never seen an original copy and I imagine that 90 years or so has an impact on even the best kept copy. It would be good to see all of their golden age ones released in this style, capturing the comics in as near as possible to the originals (didn't they use lead or something on those early covers, so I doubt if that would ever be redone) I think it is also great to keep it clean as possible of all the logos and stuff. I think the $7.99 bit is a clue that this isn't the original I don't know if they have any more planned, hopefully some other bat-man ones, perhaps a Green Lantern or two, some of the more unusual titles and not all the usual suspects, there must be some amazing ones with people like dr Fate, Robot Man, Spectre, Hour man and so on I will review the Godzilla, only just started to sit down to read it and work keeps getting in the way of any progression beyond the first few pages at the minute.
With the Flash one soon, hopefully this is a start for a number of these, if the sales allow for it. I always wish they would bring out two volumes, one cleaned up and one as close to the original as possible (I know for commercial reasons that will never happen but perhaps people will go for the older look more ... I don't know, I am certain many others will find it a little too old fashioned)
THIS is what we need from facsimile editions. Very exciting! Plus if you notice, they applied the four color printing method, not the gaudy solid color fill of typical reprints. The colorists of long ago meant for there to be saturation of colors and gradients into the paper.
Yes, that was one of the attractions, that they decided go for that printing approach instead of gaudy current reprinting approach (I just put it down to that they want the material to be for use well into the future online and on TV or other formats as well as in omnis and also to match the current issues).
Hopefully this is a good sign for some more to come out in the same style, I will be picking them up if they do. Apparently Flash comics 1 is out in December, will be checking that out also
I like the larger size and the tinted paper, has that vintage look to it. Had no idea it was different to the last facsimile, I like it. I have quite a few facsimilies from DC, PS Artbooks, and Marvel. Looking forward to reading the golden age Flash Comics 1 coming out soon, interested to see what other strips are in it too.
I will keep an eye out for the Flash one, be great if they do it in the same style, would love to see them repeating this approach. I really like they have gone for the original size (I assume it is). I like the unusual supporting strips, sometimes more interesting than the main one, I suppose because I haven't read them so often
@@AndrewBuckleBookReviews Perhaps some of those supporting strips may feature in various future DC Finest volumes.
In Flash Comics #1, the Cliff Cornwall strip is drawn by Moldoff; he would soon take over Hawkman. Other strips are Johnny Thunder (and his Thunderbolt, origin) and The Whip by George Storm (who later did DC's Buzzy series).
@@A100-ND Sounds like an entertaining issue.
Certainly does. I have high hopes for the DC finest run as well, hopefully they will cover all kinds of things and I would love to see things like the Whip etc, collections of the minor characters that could have been contenders. Also a Flash / Hawkman etc set would be great as well.
Always great stuff. Even though my wife has no interest, she knows what Andrew Buckle Book Reviews is. 😆
Ha, my fame is spreading ... glad you enjoyed the review.
Scribbly would be an awesome collection. The character actually began in Dell's Popular Comics circa 1936 before moving over to All-American in 1939. One of the few comics of that vintage I have that my dad originally owned is Popular #9. (He filled in a coupon with his name & address in pencil, proof that he did read it! So glad he didn't clip it!) At this point, the "Smithsonian Book of Comic Book Comics" and "The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told" are the best sources of Scribbly story reprints. The former includes the Red Tornado; the latter's pages were actually redrawn by Sheldon Mayer for the reprinting...!
Mayer did the Scribbly strips in a style emulating the Sunday newspaper strip reprints found in those comic books, with a logo on each page. Very fun and interesting. All-American early on had lots of newspaper strip reprints, including Bobby Thatcher which you mentioned. (Hyperion did a Bobby T. collection in the 1970s.) Mutt & Jeff continued in All-Am to the very end, of course also having their own DC series (with new covers by Mayer!).
You are right about the larger size of those vintage comic books; for example, I keep my Popular issue in a magazine size bag, rather than trying to stuff it into a Golden sleeve..,!
A couple of random notes related to the 'Tec reprint: Action Comics was on issue #12 at the time 'Tec #27 came out. Slam Bradley began in 'Tec #1. Two other complete 'Tec #27 reprints as you know are the Famous First Edition (ca. 1974) and the Millennium Edition (ca. 2000). 'Tec #1 was also an interesting Millennium Edition. At one time it was rumored DC would reprint all of the earliest 'Tec issues in book form, but it never happened. Thanks for another great video. Your long-winded friend in Indiana -- Jim
I have the two books you mentioned but it would be great if a Scribbly DC finest appeared, hopefully it will happen. I also have a single All-American, certain that has Scribbly in it as well. I have a few early (1930s) comics and yes, the size is slightly different and not a great idea to stuff them into an incorrectly sized sleeve, though I have done that to my regret over the years.
I did have the Millennium issue, way back, sadly I got rid of all but one of them. If they re-release any of the others from that series, will definitely pick them up again. I did buy their recently released DC New Fun comics 1 book which was amazing. I never had any copies of the Famous Firsts, they came out at the time of the Marvel Treasury editions and I bought them, really couldn't afford both at the time. They turn up a lot at comic marts.
I had pre-ordered the two Detective omnis and I think their listings are still on Amazon, Detective Comics Before Batman Slipcase Set .. 26 issues, that would have been something. Hopefully that will also end up as a DC finest, be happy to see that. Only 1500 pages ... so probably three volumes (probably will have a long wait)
@@AndrewBuckleBookReviews When I was about 10 years old, the Lyle Stuart hardcover editions of 2 of the Famous First Editions turned up at a bookstore in my city: Wonder Woman #1 and Sensation #1. Really nice, with dustjackets, at about $3 each on clearance. I really regret not getting those, but I was not a WW fan per se, and standard comics were still 25 cents or so.
Absolutely love the New Fun #1 HC book, I've been recommending it to DC fans. A bang-up job of reprinting; the only extremely minor quibble is a couple of the cover colors are a little off on the Jack Woods strip, but otherwise perfect. Beautiful hardboards of the covers, and nice glossy interior cover repros as well, great book.
When DC did their Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman hardcover (2019), they replaced the planned reprinting of the first Slam Bradley story from 'Tec #1 with the one from #27 because of stereotypes of the Chinese in the 1st one. I can't say with anything other than speculation, but such concerns may have scuttled the Before Batman books you've pointed out. It was reportedly what stopped DC's announced Shazam - Monster Society of Evil collection, with the black character Steamboat. So unfortunately, earliest 'Tec may not see print -- I personally think a disclaimer is all that's needed.
For example ,in recent years Fantagraphics reprinted the Mickey Mouse strips with African stereotypes, likewise IDW reprinted Tim Tyler's Luck with somewhat comparable offensive imagery -- they printed disclaimers, explaining the historical context. I think DC has made a mistake by not going a comparable route.
I agree, it is sad many of these old books are not reprinted because of various stereotypes, a disclaimer can always be added. If Fantagraphics could print them, not sure why DC couldn't add some historical context etc. Much the same with material on the BBC TV that never now gets shown, I really don't like the censoring of the past.
I have seen many famous editions, perhaps will pick one up at some point but they are often fairly expensive so I really hope we do get a run of new ones on proper paper / printing such as the issue 27. Don't think I have ever seen a hardcover copy of any of the famous first editions.
These drawings with old school look are awesome.
Yes, the old style drawings are always great, I love that kind of art. Definitely not slick but it tells the story
I have a question: Are the Loot Crate/Facsimile reprints of Detective Comics #27 the censored versions? On page 2, where it shows Lambert dead and his son discovering his body, some reprints show these panels censored by removing the knife from Lambert's back and from his son's hand. Are the Loot Crate/Facsimile reprints censored or uncensored? Thanks.
The knife is there in the latest facsimile - I would be surprised if they did any modifications to this one but always possible
Taschen DC is what we need
Would be wonderful, we have a EC one coming soon so perhaps we will see more. I would be happy to see a Captain Marvel one and many others.
Now that's how facsimiles should look ,tip of the hat to DC, they have got this spot on
I think so as well, wish Marvel would take a hint and do the same ... be brilliant to see some of their golden age ones in the same style
@@AndrewBuckleBookReviews yes completely agree, it would be outstanding if Marvel did that
Would buy many more of them. I haven't bought many of their facsimiles as they are not really that facsimile - cleaned up yes but not the same or even similar.
Nice, but I wish DC would not ruin the whole effect by slapping that new price on the cover. I'm reasonably sure that most people with a working brain will know that they're going to pay more than 10 cents for the facsimile edition. And the whole "yeah, but people will try to sell it as an original" response is just plain silly.
I agree but I guess they have to put it on with the correct price for legal reasons. No one will be fooled at the current time that the comic is anything other than a facsimile but give it 100 years of aging along with the originals, who knows.
I have a copy of the new facsimilie.
I love it, is it perfect? For the price you pay YES it is!!
(I am curious to know what the og paper would have looked like on its release.)
DC Facsimilies are knocking it out of the park.
The Marvel ones are fabulous as well, I do hope the barcodes and, ghastly 😅, modern logos will be banished from their covers as we go on, not a deal breaker, but a much cooler experience to see the books without those imo.
I would love to have a run of BATMAN in this format, not just key issues...
From the start onwards.
I thought the Betlejuice cover for the Variant cover of HOM was fun super fun as well. 🎃
Look forward to hearing your thoughts on that Godzilla volume.
What a great time to be a comic book fan!!
Thanks for the show.
Yes, as soon as I saw it I picked it up, great to see. I would imagine it was close enough but so hard to say without a time machine. I have never seen an original copy and I imagine that 90 years or so has an impact on even the best kept copy. It would be good to see all of their golden age ones released in this style, capturing the comics in as near as possible to the originals (didn't they use lead or something on those early covers, so I doubt if that would ever be redone) I think it is also great to keep it clean as possible of all the logos and stuff. I think the $7.99 bit is a clue that this isn't the original
I don't know if they have any more planned, hopefully some other bat-man ones, perhaps a Green Lantern or two, some of the more unusual titles and not all the usual suspects, there must be some amazing ones with people like dr Fate, Robot Man, Spectre, Hour man and so on
I will review the Godzilla, only just started to sit down to read it and work keeps getting in the way of any progression beyond the first few pages at the minute.
I'd buy a facsimile run too, all those additional strips would be treat.
With the Flash one soon, hopefully this is a start for a number of these, if the sales allow for it. I always wish they would bring out two volumes, one cleaned up and one as close to the original as possible (I know for commercial reasons that will never happen but perhaps people will go for the older look more ... I don't know, I am certain many others will find it a little too old fashioned)